{"id":12783,"date":"2010-10-28T22:08:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T22:08:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-28T22:08:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T22:08:26","slug":"why-prop-24-needs-to-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/28\/why-prop-24-needs-to-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Prop 24 Needs To Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this election cycle, some ballot propositions have gotten more attention than others. Prop 24 is one that deserves a higher profile. In the 2008 and 2009 budget deals, Republicans demanded and won new corporate tax loopholes worth at least $1.3 billion per year. Because of that, teachers are going to be laid off and other public services cut once those tax breaks go fully into effect next year &#8211; all so that the rich can get richer.<\/p>\n<p>The Courage Campaign (where I work as Public Policy Director) doesn&#8217;t think that&#8217;s right. We put together a new video showing what happens when a voter sleeps through the election &#8211; and what happens to all those fired teachers. Watch it:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"306\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5cmCWrV_KkA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And if you like it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragecampaign.org\/TheHangoverProp24\">click here to share it!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this election cycle, some ballot propositions have gotten more attention than others. Prop 24 is one that deserves a higher profile. In the 2008 and 2009 budget deals, Republicans demanded and won new corporate tax loopholes worth at least $1.3 billion per year. Because of that, teachers are going to be laid off and other public services cut once those tax breaks go fully into effect next year &#8211; all so that the rich can get richer.<\/p>\n<p>The Courage Campaign (where I work as Public Policy Director) doesn&#8217;t think that&#8217;s right. We put together a new video showing what happens when a voter sleeps through the election &#8211; and what happens to all those fired teachers. Watch it:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"306\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5cmCWrV_KkA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5cmCWrV_KkA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And if you like it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragecampaign.org\/TheHangoverProp24\">click here to share it!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3kb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}